It is a great joy to welcome you to the Cathedral of Christ the King for the Closing Session of the Diocesan Inquiry into the Cause for the Beatification and ...
This coming weekend, fresh from the closing of the diocesan phase of Fr Willie’s Cause, we start a speaking tour in Boston, Rhode Island and surrounding areas. We are excited ...
It was with great joy that we experienced the closing of the diocesan stage of Fr Willie’s cause for beatification and canonisation yesterday in Mullingar. The large crowds present were ...
The life of St. Teresa teaches us that we should never despair of becoming saints. As a child she was filled with a strange mysterious longing for martyrdom. But the ...
Last night I rose at one a.m. and walked two miles barefooted in reparation for the sins of priests to the chapel of Murrough (Co. Clare), where I made the ...
Death is the end of all things here, the end of time, of merit, of pain and mortification, of a hard life. It is the commencement of an eternal life ...
Fr Doyle wrote the following in his diary on this day in 1916: Lately the desire to be trampled on and become the slave of everybody has grown very strong. ...
Today we consider one of the first exercises from the first week of the Spiritual Exercises – the meditation on sin. The first week of the Spiritual Exercises is tough ...
Fr Doyle began his “Long retreat” – 30 days of the Spiritual Exercises – at this time in 1907. It was a crucial spiritual turning point for him. We will ...
Today we will start a new series of special quotations from Fr Doyle. This day 119 years ago – 10 October 1907 – Fr Doyle commenced the “Long Retreat”: 30 ...
Pray for all, but especially for sinners, and in particular for those whose sins are most painful to His Sacred Heart. With great earnestness recommend to His mercy the poor ...
Solid virtue is so called because it is formed by amassing together a facility in repeated acts. Hence the practice of any virtue is not the less meritorious because it ...
To Mary’s feet in heaven today the angels come in never-ending stream to lay before her the offerings of her loving earthly children. To their Queen they bear fair wreaths ...
“Behold I stand at the gate and knock” (Rev. 3. 20) Jesus stands at the door of my heart, patiently, uncomplainingly. How long has He been there? A year? Ten ...
In the end what once caused us pain and tears becomes the source of great interior joy, since we have realised how these things help in our spiritual progress. COMMENT: ...
